water temp wire

[Billybobjunky]

hmmm...i'm wiring in some new gauges and this caught my attention. I use the ole light indicator to see which wires have charge and whatnot, and usually when a wire has a charge, it is a steady light. when workin on the blinker wires, it would blink no biggie. But now when I hold the wire for the water temp sender and turn the key, the light is steady...for about 5 seconds and then just continually blinks off and on. I'm just gonna find another hot wire, but just thought this was interesting. Any idea why this happened?

[68F250]

That sounds normal, the power for the senders will blink because it's on a regulator. The 5 second steady power is the regulator warming up.

[Billybobjunky]

I see! So hookin up the original electrical sender wire up to a light that needs to be steady won't work bc i'll have that constant blink, correct? Didn't know that. Thanks!